Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food . |
| 2 | This will not do , for it is no different from saying that when one experiences ‘ red ’ one thinks or conceives of the colour , whereas the point of the theory was to explain what such thinking , or conceiving , is . |
| 3 | Whether one agrees or disagrees with this contention is immaterial . |
| 4 | A contemporary dishonest bill ordinarily involves not an exorbitant disclaimer ( although there are plenty of these disclaimers still in use ) , but a shipment that does not take place , or a vessel that does not exist or disappears without a trace after loading . |
| 5 | Organiser Pat Devey , of the Ferries Project , said : ‘ Anyone who lives or works in the area will be welcome . ’ |
| 6 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 7 | It stands or falls on this one event . |
| 8 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 9 | .. Next Steps almost stands or falls by us . |
| 10 | The managing director of a big British agency , when he heard his colleagues saying that an agency stands or falls by its creative department used to reply , " No — it stands or falls by its progress control department . " |
| 11 | And so we can go back to all the Beatitudes , seeing how each stands or falls in relationship to the previous ‘ Be-attitudes ’ that we have before God , in God , for God , and through God living in us . |
| 12 | I mean , everybody round here just stands or sits on those bar stools . |
| 13 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 14 | But maybe he never wants or needs to … |
| 15 | Once they reach room temperature , bacteria become active again and food deterioration starts or resumes from where it left off . |
| 16 | It is sometimes very hard to define where music starts or ceases to be , complicated . |
| 17 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 18 | 16.53 For external assessment , we recommend that the SAT or SATs at key stages 3 and 4 should sample all the strands . |
| 19 | That a prohibition thus independently justifiable works out to affect different people differently is no reason to condemn it as non-neutral , provided it was instituted or continues for ( something like ) the reasons which justify it … similarly with the prohibitions and enforcements of the minimal state . |
| 20 | Although the source of the light production giving rise to the chemiluminescence signal can not be determined definitively , our present data and data from Simmonds et al suggest that increases in reactive oxygen species generated by neutrophils are in fact an important source . |
| 21 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 22 | Love is disarmed that meets with too much ease ; He languishes and does not care to please . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , what else do you know that comes in tubes ? ’ |
| 24 | Did you know that upgrades to the EW + WW office software mean that in future it will be possible to print three-dimensional graphics and stereoscopic photographs ? |
| 25 | This effect , Honey and Hall ( 1990 ) suggested , might derive from the action of some opponent process that comes into play with the repeated presentation of the shock . |
| 26 | Dough moulding : a low temperature process that begins with mixing powdered solid polymer and the corresponding liquid monomer . |
| 27 | It is not our credibility on tax matters that needs to be proved , but the Labour party 's . |
| 28 | What I find so extraordinary is that Opposition Members are so keen to place with trade unions abroad so much of the authority on labour law matters that resides in this House . |
| 29 | He also maintained that increases in public expenditure would lead to increased taxation and higher unemployment . |
| 30 | But I expect that goes for millions of unnecessary car owners ! |